Seabourn Sojourn to start life with a series of cruises ex-UK

The second of three ultra-luxury cruise ships building for Seabourn, Seabourn Sojourn, will start her service life next year with a series of cruises out of the UK port of Dover. The 32,000grt vessel has just arrived at the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa, Italy for final outfitting work prior to being delivered in May 2010.

The 198m hull and main superstructure of the vessel up to Deck 9 were built in San Giorgio Di Nogaro, near Trieste, at the new Friuli shipyard, with the main engines, generators and major equipment already installed, before being towed to Genoa for completion. 

Like newly delivered sistership Seabourn Odyssey, Seabourn Sojourn is an all-suite vessel with 225 suites, 90% of which have private verandas; offering one of the highest space-per-passenger ratios in the industry. 

Seabourn Sojourn will be named in London in June 2010 before sailing on her maiden cruise on 6 June; a 14 day ‘North Star Sojourn’ to Iceland and the Norwegian fjords, calling at Invergordon, Scotland; Torshavn, Faroe Islands; Reykjavik, Iceland; Olden and Bergen, Norway; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; with the cruise ending in the UK port of Dover. Passengers can also extend the maiden voyage into a 28 day Grand Voyage with a second 14 day round-trip cruise from Dover to the Baltic, calling at Lubeck, Germany; Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden. She will then make a 14 day Scottish Isles & Norwegian Fjords cruise from Dover to Copenhagen on 4 July, then carry out a series of cruises from the Danish capital until mid September, before returning to Dover for more cruises, then moving to the Mediterranean in October for cruises from Lisbon and Civitavecchia, before crossing the Atlantic at the end of October to start a series of Caribbean cruises from Fort Lauderdale. 

Seabourn Sojourn will undertake her first World Cruise on 5 January 2011; a 99 day voyage from Los Angeles to Civitavecchia. Sphere: Related Content